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PARIS: AB International has taken on the worldwide rights to the documentary Earth On Pause, which looks to capture the emotions of people from around the world as they are watching the World Cup final. Around ten light crews, including …

SAN JOSE: Multimedia Research Group (MRG) forecasts that the number of IPTV subscribers will reach 102 million in 2014, a 25-percent CAGR, delivering revenues of $46 billion. Europe will be home to 45 percent of those IPTV subscribers, MRG predicts, with 31 …

NASHVILLE: Your Chance to Dance, produced by The Gurin Company, is a new competition series on CMT that features contestants putting their own spin on popular video dance moves in front of a live studio audience. Each hour-long episode watches …

BARCELONA: Imira Entertainment has sold the new CGI Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps to RTP of Portugal, along with scoring renewals for further series from HIT Entertainment.  RTP picked up 40 12-minute episodes of the series, aimed at 4- to …

NEW YORK: Karen O’Hara has been promoted to VP of original movies at Syfy, with oversight for the development and production of more than 20 films for the channel’s Saturday night original movie strand per year.  In her previous role …

LOS ANGELES: The Walt Disney Company has reportedly reached a deal in principle to sell Miramax to construction magnate Ron Tutor and the private-equity firm Colony Capital. The price for the indie label—which Disney acquired from the Weinstein brothers in 1993 …

SINGAPORE: Pay-TV platforms SingTel and StarHub, which are sharing the rights to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, are teaming with two resorts to deliver this weekend’s final, between the Netherlands and Spain, in 3D.  About 1,200 people have been invited to …

 PORT WASHINGTON: E1 Entertainment has firmed up a multi-year deal to serve as distributor on more than 200 titles from Blue Underground.  E1 will represent catalogue titles as well as new home-video releases in the U.S., physically, digitally and through …

BEIJING: China has renewed Google’s license to operate its website in China, despite a rift over Gmail accounts being hacked and censorship of search results.  Google last week stopped automatically redirecting users in China to its uncensored Hong Kong site …

LONDON: Coolabi has started production on the Nick Jr. UK-commissioned children’s series based on the literary character Poppy Cat. The series is slated for a 2011 launch on the network. Ahead of its launch, the show has already been sold …